One of the harshest attacks against Israel made in increasingly mainstream circles in recent months is that the Israeli presence in the West Bank has resulted in “Water Apartheid” — a systematic deprivation of the Palestinians’ water rights. Most famously, it was raised in February by Martin Schultz, president of...

This week the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning the human rights situation in Iran for “continued, systemic violation of fundamental rights” and called on its member states to prioritize human rights in their dealings with Iran. Despite the continuing nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries, the Islamic...

Israel’s prestigious Unit 8200 signal intelligence corps is well-known not just for its military effectiveness, but also for the success of its alumni in the hi-tech sector. Now they have launched a hi-tech incubator to support emerging tech entrepreneurs. Inbal Arieli, who heads the 8200 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Program...

The daily Iran news bulletin published by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) yesterday conveyed Persian-language remarks from a top Iranian official declaring that the Hassan Rouhani government was committed to leveraging the private sector in order to stabilize and then boost Iran’s economy, a day after Rouhani himself gestured toward the same theme in...

Reuters on Thursday published details from a Wednesday press conference held by Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki, in which Malki declared that he didn’t “expect any consequences coming from the U.S. Congress” after Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas signed papers requesting membership for the “State of Palestine” in 15 international treaties....

The United Nations on Thursday announced that more than one million refugees have flooded into Lebanon from Syria, creating what The New York Times described as “the highest concentration of refugees as a percentage of population in the world, with about one Syrian for every three Lebanese.” “The influx of a million...

Palestinian officials on Thursday reportedly presented a new list of demands that the Israelis would have to meet lest the Palestinians abandon peace talks, as Jerusalem reacted to Tuesday’s diplomatic gambit by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas – in which Abbas committed to joining 15 international treaties in violation of commitments designed to promote...

Officials at Marquette University, a Jesuit university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are distancing themselves from earlier support of last week’s Israel Apartheid Week activities on the campus. Marquette is one of several American institutions where the anti-Israel event is held. Usually it is a student sponsored event, but this year Marquette’s administration...

According to Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is not an agent of change. In fact, Rouhani “represents the resilience of Iran’s revolutionary elites and their resolve to preserve their grip on power.” In Ottolenghi’s analysis released last week, Not-So-Revolutionary...

An Israeli company, GreenTeam Internet, helped Turkish Twitter users evade their government’s much derided Twitter ban. The Times of Israel reports: The Turkish users, said [GreenTeam Internet CEO David] Allouch, weren’t interested in the filtering service offered by GreenTeam, but rather in the fact that the service was offering a...